10,000 Years of Dark

Astra Nyx is a Purist in a world of digital ghosts. While other pilots swap their humanity for S-grade neural interfaces, Astra clings to her "Legacy Link"—a vintage neural jack that lets her feel the scream of the metal and the hum of the void. She’s a relic of the Tyrian Shipyards, living in a galaxy where "The Maw" demands a blood toll: every jump through the gate to travel across systems costs years of your life. But the latest mission wasn't supposed to cost everything. When the Anchor—an experimental ship designed to freeze time—malfunctions, Astra and her hyper-augmented co-pilot are thrown 10,000 years into a silent future. The stars have shifted. The planets are dead. And the only signal left in the dark is a corrupted broadcast from a planet that should have crumbled to dust millennia ago. To survive, Astra must navigate a graveyard of empires, an eldritch evolution of technology, and a signal that makes you something other than human.